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- Title
Magicians of the Twenty-first Century: Enchantment, Domination, and the Politics of Work in Silicon Valley.
- Authors
Crandall, Emily K.
- Abstract
What is the political theorist to make of self-characterizations of Silicon Valley as the beacon of civilization-saving innovation? Through an analysis of "tech bro" masculinity and the closely related discourses of tech icons Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, we argue that undergirding Silicon Valley's technological utopia is an exploitative work ethic revamped for the industry's innovative ethos. On the one hand, Silicon Valley hypothetically offers a creative response to what Max Weber describes as the disenchantment of the modern world. Simultaneously, it depoliticizes the actual work necessary for these dreams to be realized, mystifying its modes of domination.
- Subjects
SILICON Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.); MUSK, Elon, 1971-; MASCULINITY
- Publication
Theory & Event, 2021, Vol 24, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
2572-6633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tae.2021.0045